Crime

The young photographer had fled the state of Veracruz in fear for his life to seek security in Mexico City. On Sunday, his fellow journalists mourned the loss of Ruben Espinosa, shot to death two days earlier in a middle-class neighborhood in the capital. Espinosa, 31, is the 12th journalist who worked in the state of Veracruz to be killed since 2011. Three more are missing. Espinosa’s body was found along with those of four women who were also killed late Friday. He had been tied up, his face showed signs of a severe beating, and he had been shot twice in the chest. NEWSLETTER: Get the day's top headlines from Times Editor Davan Maharaj >> Espinosa, who...

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A person of "interest" has been taken into custody in connection with the fatal shooting of a police officer during a traffic stop in Memphis, police said Sunday.
Memphis Police Department spokeswoman Karen Rudolph told The Associated Press...

Three men have died and at least 12 other people have been wounded in separate shootings since Saturday afternoon across the city, police said.
A man who was one of two people shot early Sunday along the lakefront on the South Side has died....

Kendall County detectives are investigating a drive-by shooting that occurred about 6 a.m. Sunday in the 100 block of Laurie Lane in an unincorporated area near Oswego, authorities said.
No one was hurt when "numerous" shots were fired into a...

The Lake County sheriff's office responded to the 200 block of Niagara Drive in Volo for a report of shots fired around 11 p.m. Saturday, according to a police statement.
A 911 caller reported he saw an individual with a handgun and heard a gunshot...

A 31-year-old woman was arrested after she allegedly fired shots at police officers Saturday evening in northwest suburban Schaumburg.
The woman's roommate alerted police via text that she was holding a pistol and was making suicidal statements around...

An Uptown man stole a suitcase Tuesday morning containing $68,000 worth of wigs for cancer patients from a baggage claim area at O’Hare International Airport, authorities said.
Noel Fulgencio, 35, was charged with one felony count of...

The phone call came about dinnertime.
"Tell Lynda to come home."
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But the...

Zimbabwe has suspended the hunting of lions, leopards and elephants in an area where a lion popular with tourists was killed, and is investigating the killing of another lion in April that may have been illegal, the country's wildlife authority said...

At least 10 people have been wounded in separate shootings since Friday evening across the city, police said.
A 21-year-old man was critically hurt and two 17-year-old boys were wounded in a shooting around 2:45 a.m. Saturday in the University Village...

Valparaiso 14-year-olds accused of taking vehicle
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A man was killed and at least 18 others have been wounded since Thursday afternoon across the city, police said.
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Suspected Jewish assailants set fire to a West Bank home on Friday and burned a sleeping Palestinian toddler to death in an attack that drew Palestinian rage and widespread Israeli condemnation. The attack, which threatens to set off another violent...

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A man claiming to be the son of President Obama was charged and ordered to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet after spurring a police bomb unit response outside of the President's Kenwood home on Thursday, prosecutors said Friday.
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Police are looking for a man accused of sexually assaulting a female resident Friday evening.
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